Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing Impairment
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.594 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing Impairment is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing Impairment catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.594 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.594 miles away, the 62nd shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance, this one included.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 70 first-choice applications for 58 offers; 55 offers went to first-choice families, and 15 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- The Slade, Tonbridge, TN9 1HR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 419 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Slade Primary is a welcoming and positive place for pupils.”
- “The school has clear ambitions for all pupils, including those in the specially resourced provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “As a result, pupils learn well, and children in early years make a confident start to their time in school.”
To improve
- “However, in some classes, there are times when pupils lose focus on learning.”
- “In some subjects, the tasks set by teachers do not always reflect the important knowledge that pupils should learn.”
- “When this happens, pupils do not develop their understanding securely.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 64% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 70 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 55 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- Sussex Road Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Royal Rise Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Long Mead Community Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bishop Chavasse Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Cage Green Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Stocks Green Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published